The intensification of financial regulation is a fundamental trend transforming the asset management ecosystem. The planned transition to T+1 settlement in 2024 and the forthcoming revision of Mifid ...

The European Union (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 375/2017) (the “MiFID II Regulations”) were signed into law on 10 August 2017 and are now publicly available. The MiFID ...

The regulator aims to significantly reduce the administrative burden of the regime. On 21 November 2025, the FCA published ...

The controversy concerns APAs, which investment firms use to fulfill new pre- and post-trade transparency requirements under Mifid II and its accompanying Mifir regulation, which came into force on ...

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a sweeping set of proposals to overhaul MiFID-era transaction ...

The House on Tuesday passed a bill to codify now-expired guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission allowing U.S. broker-dealers to receive separate payments for research without being ...

MiCA passed in 2022, but aspects of it are still being worked out. Defining a financial instrument is a big outstanding question. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) released two ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's guidance allowing U.S. broker-dealers to receive separate payments for research without being subjected to regulation as investment advisers has expired, and ...

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The European Commission’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is due for final implementation from November. Many participants in the foreign exchange market still seem to be labouring under ...

FIX has been at the forefront of electronic trading for over two decades now. Whilst its roots, for obvious reasons, are within technology departments, it has been a combination of technicians and ...

A survey last year found more than three-quarters (77 per cent) of pension schemes feel they do not necessarily have the operational infrastructure in place to accommodate change, such as the ...